How To Find The Best Books Online Fast

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I love books. 

I'm surrounded by them. Too many than I can count, or read during an average year. Many are unopened, their pages remain virgin territory for my reading. 

Others have been worn out from repetitive page turning.

This lens is focused on helping you find the best of online books.

Some are great works of fiction hot off the press.  Others are classics from days gone by.  And still others are biographies of important people known and unknown.

Get your reading light, a cup of tea, and take a journey to far away places and times.

What's Hot At The New York Times? 

Recent reviews from the premiere source for opinions on books: the New York Times.

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What Are You Reading Right Now? 

Share your current reading list. Simply click Add To This List, then Help Me Find Products, and type in the author of your book. Feel free to add your name to the end of your description!

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott

Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott

Mass collaboration is changing the way we do busin more...2 points

From Credit Repair to Credit Millionaire by Donna L. Fox

From Credit Repair to Credit Millionaire by Donna L. Fox

My mentor and friend, Donna Fox, has laid out a co more...2 points

The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans

The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth by Richard Paul Evans

I received this book for free as a new associate o more...1 point

Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert T. Kiyosaki

Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom by Robert T. Kiyosaki

This book helped me learn the way we make money an more...1 point

Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want by Mark Joyner

Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want by Mark Joyner

Don't read anything else unitl you've read this!1 point

A Course in Miracles

A Course in Miracles

Original Manuscript of A Course in Miracles. Inclu more...1 point

The Portable Coach: 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business And Personal Success by Thomas J. Leonard

The Portable Coach: 28 Sure Fire Strategies For Business And Personal Success by Thomas J. Leonard

This book is very powerful. Thomas Leonard, the fa more...0 points

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker

This book changed the way I understood wealth and more...0 points

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard

Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard

It never ceases to amaze me what people can get ou more...0 points

The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable by The Group of 33

The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable by The Group of 33

Great read from one of my favorite authors. Mike P more...0 points

A Meaningful Gift: Passing on the Richness of God's Love by Quester Adams

A Meaningful Gift: Passing on the Richness of God's Love by Quester Adams

In A Meaningful Gift: Passing on the Richness of G more...0 points

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No Time To Read? Here Are 3 Options For You 

If you don't have time to read, you have a couple of choices.
  1. You can give up on ever learning the great stuff that has been written.
  2. You can check out Audiobooks and read as you do other stuff.
  3. Or you can have others read books for you and tell you what they're about.

Now obviously, I don't recommend #1, because that's just plain boring.

My first recommendation is to go the audiobook route. Audiobooks have allowed me to read a book every week or two, instead of every three months or so. While I'm driving to school, doing yardwork, or just trying to relax (or even nap!), audiobooks allow me to enrich my life when I can't get to the physical pages.

The two best places for audiobooks I can share with you are Hear2Read.com for digital audiobook downloads, or Bookwise for Audiobooks on CD.

As for having somebody else read for you and tell you the gist, this is becoming very popular.

As a teacher I cringe when I hear the words Cliff's Notes, but the reality is we have a limited amount of time. And as adults, it's OK to skip the bulk of the reading if our lives can be substantially helped out by learning what people have written.


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Free Public Domain Books - What's New At Project Gutenberg? 

Free digital books for your PDA or computer

Project Gutenberg houses classic, public domain books -- over 20,000! The list below are the newest editions.

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Signed By The Author 

Steal These Autographed First Editions At EBay!

Check back often, as every day a different author's first edition, autographed book shows up on eBay. Add to your collection, or get it started with one of these books below...

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Are your literature interests focused just on first editions?
Head over to the First Edition Lens on Squidoo!
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The Dream: Open Your Own Independent Bookstore! 

If you love books, you'll fall out of your chaise for this!

Ever thought about how cool it would be to have your own independent book store?

Sounds like a pipe dream, I know! But in early March, I gained access to this very dream. Now, I'm able to get the best of new fiction, audiobooks, and biographies for 40% off.

How?

I opened my own independent bookstore as an Associate of Bookwise & Company.

I'd like to invite you to share in this experience. Become a customer of my store, and receive 30% off, or join my team as an independent bookstore owner yourself to receive an extra 10% off!

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What People Are Reading Now 

Want to know what people are reading? Check out the bestsellers at Amazon.

The Accidental Bestseller

Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 07/12/2009) Buy Now

How My Private Personal Journal Became a Bestseller

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Mary, Called Magdalene

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Numbered Account

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Shooter: The Autobiography of the Top-ranked Sniper, New York Times Best-seller

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What's Up In Your World Of Books? 

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stemcells wrote...

Wonderful source of Information!
If You would like to know more about
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ReplyPosted March 25, 2008

Teacher-of-ACIM wrote...

Thanks Bob,
Very helpful

ReplyPosted June 03, 2007

Mr.BookTranslator wrote...

Hi Bob. My life fulls of reading good quality books. Most of them are new

ReplyPosted April 27, 2007

PaulaFarris wrote...

Grear Lens, Bob! I LOVE books. I may never have time to read as many as I'd like to, but I'll keep trying! Thanks for giving me some more possibilities.

ReplyPosted April 26, 2007

writertiff wrote...

Great lens!

ReplyPosted April 22, 2007

Isbiz wrote...

Nice lens,I love to read,but these days I just listen to them.My favorite site for audio books is
www.audiobookspeople.com

ReplyPosted April 21, 2007

StuartStirling wrote...

Nice lens Bob. I have manhy books too and wish I could get through them all. Maybe I should download a few from your www.hear2read.com". Keep us posted how it goes!

ReplyPosted April 19, 2007

nar321 wrote...

Excellent Lenses

ReplyPosted April 19, 2007

SewingSuccess wrote...

As a teacher and author, we can reach more students all over world achieve success through referring good books. Sites like this help reach that goal. I write and promote sewing books at http://www.squidoo.com/sewingbook and on my website at http://www.1ststeptosewingsuccess.com -This is my passion!

ReplyPosted April 19, 2007

JonBaines wrote...

Great Lens Bob, A very good idea. I prefer to read Non Fiction now (either Hard copy or ebooks), However I used to find the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' style books an absorbing read when I was at school.

ReplyPosted April 19, 2007

 
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